Thursday, October 10, 2013

Time
to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the
colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by the Sky Watch team led of Yogi, Sandy and Sylvia.
And this week as every week, we remember Klaus and know that he joins
us in spirit! Join us and the many people from all over the world who
share theirs with us each week! http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Never a ship sails out of the bay
But carries my heart as a stowaway.
~Roselle Mercier Montgomery

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
~e.e. cummings

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans. ~Kahlil Gibran

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

No nursing home for these guys!! They'll be checking into a Holiday Inn!!With the average cost for a nursing home care costing $188.00 per day, per person, there is a better way when we get old and too feeble. I've already checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn. For a combined long term stay discount and senior discount, it's $59.23 per night for two people. Breakfast is included and some have happy hours in the afternoon. That leaves $128.77 a day for lunch and dinner in any restaurant we want or room service, laundry, gratuities and special TV movies.Plus, they provide a spa, swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge and washer-dryer, etc.Most have free toothpaste and razors and all have free shampoo and soap. $5 worth of tips a day and you'll have the entire staff scrambling to help you.They treat you like a customer, not a patient.There's a city bus stop out front and seniors ride free. The handicap bus will also pick you up (if you fake a decent limp).To meet other nice people, call a church bus on Sundays.For a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice restaurants there.While you're at the airport, fly somewhere. Otherwise, the cash keeps building up!! It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. Holiday Inn will take your reservation today!! And you're not stuck in one place forever -- you can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city.Want to see Hawaii?? They have Holiday Inns there, too.TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need a mattress replaced? No problem. The fix everything and apologize for the inconvenience.The Inn has night security person and daily room service. The maid checks to see if you are ok. If not, they'll call an ambulance ... or the undertaker.If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will be happy to pay for the hip and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.An no worries about visits from family. They will always be glad to find you and probably check in for a few days mini-vacation.The grandkids can use the pool.Now -- what more could you ask for??

Monday, October 7, 2013

Time
for Our World again!! This is a wonderful way to find, see and enjoy the
beauty, the fun, the good and even the not so good things about our
world today and to share them!! Hope you will join us!!

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda

Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. Unknown

What Can I Say?

I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.

Stop Hate Starting Here

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellowPerhaps if the sun’s tears would singagainst a white stone....

Such, such a yellowIs carried lightly ’way up high.It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in herePenned up inside this ghetto.But I have found what I love here.The dandelions call to meAnd the white chestnut branches in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one.Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.

Written by Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942 Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921.Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitzon Sept. 29, 1944.

Thank You, Anthony!!

Check out his blog and photos!

Chasing Ashes

I love to write and it has been a hobby for a long time. Mysteries were always my escape reading during some of the darker times of my life and I finally decided to give it a try. I've actually written seven over the years. Unfortunately, my last computer disaster resulted in my losing three of the latest four. I did manage to salvage this one.